See also: Japanner

English

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Etymology

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japan +‎ -er

Noun

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japanner (plural japanners)

  1. One who varnishes in the manner of the Japanese, or one skilled in that art.
  2. (archaic) A bootblack.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for japanner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)